Essential Nature Quotes

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Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith. — Oswald Chambers
Every human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless, but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget our roots and take on… — Laozi
Do not talk about your greatness; you are really, in essential nature, no great than those around you. — Wallace D. Wattles
Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump. — Willard Van Orman Quine
Stillness is your essential nature. What is stillness? The inner space or awareness in which the words on this page are bieng perceived and become… — Eckhart Tolle
Whenever the essential nature of things is analysed by the intellect, it must seem absurd or paradoxical. This has always been recognized by the mystics,… — Fritjof Capra
However you look at it, in these books "power" tends to be an expression of the essential nature of the person or being whose power… — Stephen R. Donaldson
The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as… — W. Somerset Maugham
I should much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the basis of living together in peace than the creation of a Jewish state.… — Albert Einstein
Saints and mystics throughout history have adorned their realisations with different names and given them different faces and interpretations, but what they are all fundamentally… — Sogyal Rinpoche
All problems in life arise from some weakness of mind. All weakness of mind is due to the mind's ignorance of its own essential nature,… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Divine is all Love in its essential nature, and Love is all Divine in its truthful expression. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
A mind now clouded by the illusions of the innate darkness of life is like a tarnished mirror, but when polished, it is sure to… — Nichiren
Unless a man first finds himself, finds his own essential nature and destiny, and begins from them, all his efforts and achievements will be built… — Rodney Collin
Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion,… — Plato
The first spiritual law of success is the Law of Pure Potentiality. This law is based on the fact that we are, in our essential… — Deepak Chopra
One should be always on the trail of one's own deepest nature. For it is the fearless living out of your own essential nature that… — Henry David Thoreau
Only the human heart can live in present moment awareness. The human mind cannot, because its essential nature is to ponder the past and plan… — David Simon
Yoga practices shift our identity away from the ego-personality and its struggles so that we can begin to reconnect with the essential nature of our… — Sharon Gannon
The creative process, like a spiritual journey, is intuitive, non-linear, and experiential. It points us toward our essential nature, which is a reflection of the… — John Daido Loori

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